A Place to Call Home is our community’s new strategic framework and articulates our community’s vision for making sure everyone has a place to call home. The framework has been adopted by the Columbus and Franklin County Continuum of Care and Community Shelter Board to re-affirm our guiding principles for addressing homelessness; and to articulate our vision for an aspirational, systemic response that ensures homelessness is prevented whenever possible, or if it can’t be prevented, is a rare, brief, and non-recurring experience.

This is a framework for action that aligns with federal and state plans to address homelessness and supports achievement of our overall vision for a comprehensive and highly effective community response to homelessness.

Additional information and resources concerning the framework are below, including the full report, an executive summary, materials used in the development of the framework, and implementation resources relevant to each goal. We invite you to explore these resources and participate in the ongoing work to ensure everyone has a place to call home.

Community Shelter Board receives support from the City of Columbus, the Franklin County Board of Commissioners, the United Way of Central Ohio, The Columbus Foundation, Nationwide Foundation, American Electric Power Foundation, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the State of Ohio, and many other public and private investors.